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Originally posted by Kai-Petri:
Historical Postscript:
After the surrender in Africa three of the German divisions that had fought in the Western Desert were reconstituted in western Europe. The 15th Panzer Division was reformed as a Panzergrenadier division, and renumbered as the 115th since there was already a 15th Panzergrenadier Division on the books. The 21st Panzer Division was reformed under its own name. The 90th Light Division was reformed as the 90th Panzergrenadier Division ...
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Begging your pardon, Kai, but this is incorrect. There was a 115th Panzergrenadier
Regiment, but not a 115th Panzergrenadier
Division. The 115th was a regiment of the 15th Panzergrenadier Division, which was the actual linear descendant of the 15th Panzer Division of the old Afrika Korps days. At least, every reference work I have says that the 15th Panzer was reformed as the 15th Panzergrenadier in Sicily with some extra units drafted in from elsewhere (for example, the 129th Panzergrenadier Regiment of the defunct 22nd Panzer Division, which was disbanded in Russia).
Yours,
Paul